Pietro Lista - Morandiana

The "Still Life" genre emerged in the early 17th century. It consists of compositions of inanimate subjects, most often flowers or fruit. While initially it was an opportunity for painters to attempt a photographic reproduction of reality, with contemporary art the "Still Life" also becomes a way of interpreting reality, as it did for the Cubists or Giorgio Morandi.

This work by Pietro Lista demonstrates how a traditional genre like still life can be reinterpreted, becoming the manifesto of an artist's poetics. Pietro Lista cites Giorgio Morandi. Like the Bolognese painter, Lista's focus is on stripping objects of their plasticity in search of their true essence. But Lista recontextualizes this discourse by going further. Thus, the objects, reduced to the mere outline of an uncertain white line, lose all representational value, becoming a simple sequence of signs. They remain as signifiers of a new alphabet made up of symbols linked to what were previously forms.

Pietro Lista was born in Castiglione del Lago in 1941. His various exhibitions include: a solo show at the Bosquet Gallery in Paris in 1971; his participation in the Rome Quadrennial in 1975; his participation in the Michetti Prize in 1980; his solo show at the Trans/Form Gallery in Paris in 1983, and a group show at the Galerie K in Tokyo in 1993. In 1993, he founded the MMMAC (Museum of Minimal Materials of Contemporary Art) in Paestum.

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